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The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family feat. Richard Seymour

Emancipations Podcast

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The Moralistic Version of Neoliberalism

There was a widespread ideological belief that Trump supporters were, you know, working class. Which is not true. That was always overestimating where Trump was picking up his vote. Well, it's also reflective of a very poor mode of class analysis. Yeah. But class analysis is, is ideology. It keeps reproducing as an extension of the ideology of meritocracy and respectability. You know, which derives from having recognition but not strictly moral recognition.Yeah. And so therefore, if you haven't done well, it's because you're not working hard enough, you're not willing to work. So they're basically, for a long period of time, there was a sense in which

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